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April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 4

…4 — Graduation Edition 2022 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com S ince I started studying at the University of Michigan, I have become more and more familiar with Washtenaw County’s primarily rural character: its winding gravel roads, bucolic red farmhouses and wide-open spaces. Just beyond Ann Arbor’s city limits in almost every direction lies a spectacular expanse of greenery, mimicking the rural escapes of Northern...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 5

… Graduation Edition 2022 — 5 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com D ear President Schlissel, If you’re reading this message, walk outside your door and talk to Jonathan Vaughn. In case, President Schlissel, you don’t know who that is, you may want to check out the student, local, statewide and national press coverage that his courageous statement has attracted. He is one of more than 2,000 students and athletes who su...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 6

…Arts 6 — Graduation Edition 2022 When we think of what defines good art, nationality and language are generally not the first factors that come to mind. Yet, in reality, the cel- ebration of the arts is often heavily influenced by outdated ideas dictat- ing what stories are deserving of rec- ognition. The British-Japanese pop singer Rina Sawayama stands as one of the clearest examples of this phenom- enon. When BRITs and the Mercury p...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 7

…Reading has always been a solitary activity for me. When I checked out books at the public library as a child, I knew that those books were mine alone for the next two weeks. I read for hours while curled up on the couch, oblivious to everything except the words on the page. When my mother called me for dinner, I scrambled to reach a good stopping point in my book before joining my family. As a child, I’d never thought of books as a ...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 8

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Graduation Edition 2022 Perhaps family is a set of rela- tionships characterized by DNA or “blood,” as age-old proverbs may indicate. But this definition may not be so all-encompassing; for one, it would render adoption illegitimate and negates what some of us consider our “chosen families.” When we shift our lens to Southeastern Asia, specif- ically Tibet, this rigidity surr...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 9

…Graduation Edition 2022 — 9 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com As a person of color, any type of application, whether it be college, job or internship applications are always equipped with stress, self-doubt and insecurity. I feel alone in academic and social settings at the University of Michigan, with about 55% of the student population being white and the median family income being a staggering $154,000 for t...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 10

…ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotatem a...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 11

…Graduation Edition 2022 — 11 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan clinches first National Championship title in school history SAMI RUUD 2021 Daily Sports Writer The 2021 gymnastics National Championship came down to the very last routine of the meet. Junior Abby Heiskell stared down the beam as she mounted it. As she performed her routine, she completed each skill with an intention to do it perfectly, a lesson Mich...…

April 24, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 74) • Page Image 12

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Business 12 — Graduation Edition 2022 SALES. SERVICE. SUPPORT. Now & Forever After graduation, no matter where life takes you, we are always your tech store! Campus Locations: Michigan Union & Pierpont Commons University owned and operated since 1988 techshop.umich.edu You’re off to great places. Grab all the tech you need to get there. TRADE IN BONUS through Saturday, May 7 Get an e...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 1

…GOT A NEWS TIP? E-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXXII, No. 108 ©2023 The Michigan Daily N E WS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 S T A T E M E N T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 O P I N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 2

…A few thousand graduate students, undergraduates, lecturers and Ann Arbor community members rallied on the Diag at the University of Michigan Wednesday in support of the Graduate Employees’ Organization’s decision to strike following months of unsuccessful contract negotiations with the University’s Academic Human Resources Department. The walk-out started at 10:24 a.m. to call attention to the fact that GEO is “...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 3

…About 50 University of Michigan students and faculty alike gathered in Rackham Auditorium for the annual Tanner Lecture Wednesday evening, which is funded by The Tanner Foundation, an organization that helps patients with neurological diseases. This year’s keynote speaker was Sally Haslanger, the Ford professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Haslanger’s lecture focused on int...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 4

…“Do you think it will be war?” young bride-to-be Gûle (Kajeen Aloush, debut) asks her older sister. A pause. “It already is war,” her sister replies. So begins “Berbû,” Sevinaz Evdike’s dazzling directorial debut, which had its American premiere this Thursday at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. “Berbù,” which clocks in at just 70 minutes, is a deeply personal portrait of the ongoing Syrian civil war. The film is set in Serekaniye, a...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 5

…Taylor Swift has been widely hailed as one of the greatest songwriters of her generation. Not only are her songs catchy and meaningful, but they almost always tell an incredible, lively story. In particular, the songs that describe beautiful relationships and heart-wrenching breakups reach a level of storytelling that few other art- ists can aspire to. And because these songs tell such descriptive stories, it’s only natural that fans...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 6

…I think makeup is one of the most exciting forms of art. Discovering techniques that complement different facial structures, emphasizing your favorite features and enhancing personal style all draw me to the beauty world, whether in everyday makeup or more creative, bold looks. My interest in makeup is reflected in the way I use social media — on Pinterest boards or my Instagram explore page, there’s bound to be some makeu...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 7

…S T A T E M E N T michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily Wednesday, April 5, 2023 — 7 Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of smiling at my phone. My affair with the game started about six days before this past Christmas when I got a text from my uncle telling me that it was time to continue our annual tradition of me telling him what I wanted for Christmas — and that invariably being the newest version of FIFA. But this year, for the f...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 8

…Sonder is a term that describes the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own; in essence, the word strikes a sense of not only sorrow due to meaning itself, but also comfort, an echo that radiates between the two syllables and connects the six letters into a hopeful hopelessness. When I first learned about the word, I was listening to my playlist as a new song by Brent Faiyaz ...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 9

…Before I knew of virtue, I knew of vice. It’s not a stretch to say I grew up hand in hand with the knowledge of sin, from the fairly innocuous to the fairly extreme: to hurt someone is a sin, to blaspheme is a sin, alco- hol, greed, sacrilege — the list goes on and on. But with the knowledge of sin came also an understanding of hierarchy, with some sins taught as per- missible and others damning. All are sins against god, but some ...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 10

…The penis, perhaps, in its most potent, primal state, might be one of the biggest (or maybe not so big …) mysteries unknown to man. At the sacral site of this sexual organ is an enormous world of imagina- tion, pro-creation and pleasure. Well-endowed with a complex nar- rative structure, relentlessly rising and falling, climaxing and relax- ing exists this embodied enigma, eluding human culture since the dawn of time as seen in centur...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 11

…Seedling those who sow seeds, side-by-side in the dark, would not wish the morning wood come sooner, as patient are they in the practice of spring, of springing vibrantly into action, of acting vigorously in visceral actuality, there is a finality — leaving nothing undone — these planters, having fallen fatally from grace, are no stranger to darkness no stranger than darkness, than divinity, should they remain grateful, graceful in the...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 12

…A ccording to the CDC, permanent hearing loss begins at decibel levels of 70. On March 11, 2023, when Yu Chang — an infielder playing for Chinese Taipei — hit a go-ahead grand slam, a decibel reader inside Taichung Intercontinental Stadium registered 118. En route to a 9-5 upset over the Netherlands, Yu Chang blasted the eardrums of 20,000 local fans and etched himself into Taiwanese baseball history. As he rounded second base (...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 13

…I still remember one of my first Uber experiences during high school. Hiding my disbelief that technology had allowed me inside a total stranger’s car, I stared at downtown Los Angeles rushing past. My feet thumped along to the optimistic lyrics of “Party in the U.S.A.” by Miley Cyrus, my designated driver’s song of choice. Noticing my familiarity with his playlist, the driver opened his mouth to say, “Man, I really miss ...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 14

…B efore I begin this piece, I want to add a disclaimer: I identify as Jewish. Given the title of this piece and my own positions, I think it’s relevant. There’s been a lot of discussion about the state of Israel and its treatment of Palestinian people on this campus, much of it impassioned and heated. This February, the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met to discuss a public statement about Palestinian ri...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 15

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 5, 2023 — 15 Michigan’s hot and cold hitting lead to 2-1 weekend outing against Nebraska TASMIA JAMIL Daily Sports Writer When the Michigan softball team’s bats get hot with runners in scoring positions, it tends to win. On Friday, the Wolverines tallied 14 hits and 10 runs. But on Satur- day, Nebraska extinguished the momentum by pitching a shutout. While Michigan (17-14 over...…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 16

…S omething was off from the start. Before the No. 3 Michigan women’s gymnastics team could even get going, senior Gabby Wilson fell on the second routine of the team’s first rotation. With an uncharacteristic fall on bars, Wilson, and the Wolverines’ hopes, were already on the ground. And that’s just about where they would stay — no matter how hard the team fought. Although Michigan (26-2 overall) led for the first two rou...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 1

…The National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency which provides research grants for science and engineering, is conducting a review of the University of Michigan’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering compliance with Title IX regulations. The CSE department has seen allegations of sexual misconduct against several of its faculty members since 2020. NSF began conducting interviews with CSE f...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 2

…When the Graduate Employees’ Organization began their ongoing strike on March 29, some classes were temporarily canceled or modified across the University of Michigan, leaving many undergraduate students feeling uncertain about how the final weeks of the semester will unfold. Many U-M students have voiced their support for GEO’s demands for wage increases, though others voiced concern over additional proposals...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 3

…Crisler Center Michigan basketball sports its own dedicated and zealous student section — the Maize Rage. Though the Maize Rage also participates in various other sporting events, it’s primarily associated with Michigan basketball and is the only student section affiliated with the athletic department. Zach Linfield, Kinesiology senior and designated Maize Rage “Superfan,” which is an official representative o...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 4

…The intelligent inhabitants of the exoplanet Kepler-1084B — the only non-human intelligent beings in the universe, as they suspect — turn on their radio receivers and listen in on the signals originating from Earth, 193 lightyears away. For centuries, they have been searching for signs of life beyond their home planet. They want to believe that they aren’t alone in the universe. Their arduous, fruitless search for interplanetary l...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 5

…There’s a boxing match a-brewin’. Now, this is no hand- picked Apollo Creed versus The Italian Stallion, but it seems to be the new imminent climax to a conflict between male online influencers. KSI vs Logan Paul, KSI’s brother Deji vs FouseyTube, Logan Paul challenging boxing legend Floyd Mayweather — these influencer boxing incidents have become an industry, as millions upon millions of online followers fill sold-out seats. Th...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 6

…COLD OPEN INT. FAMILY ROOM – AFTERNOON LITTLE SISTER (7) hurries into the room, out of breath. Her aquamarine “The Little Mermaid” backpack unceremoniously plops to the ground as she kicks off her shoes and makes a beeline for the couch, GoGurt in hand. BIG SISTER (10) is already lying across the opposite couch. LITTLE SISTER Did I miss it? Did it start yet? Big Sister shakes her head NO in confirmation. LITTLE SISTER (sigh...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 7

…One. Two. Three. I closed my eyes as each number echoed in my head and my anxi- ety grew. I focused on my internal counting, hoping to prevent a shut down. However, it couldn’t mask the sound of my family circling around me as they spoke about a deportation in our local Mexican store. I shielded myself from real- ity, forcing my warm hands over each ear. Individually, my toes curled on the staircase’s steps as my body formed into a ...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 8

…F or the foreseeable future, The Daily does not plan to publish anonymous Op-Eds or Letters to the Editor, with a few clear-cut exceptions. In order for us to publish an anonymous Op-Ed or Letter to the Editor, three things must be true: The piece must be specifically relevant to those on campus, the story or argument can only be told or made by the writer requesting anonymity and there must be some reasonable expectation that...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 9

…T hink of every teacher you’ve ever had. Consider each of them, both your favorites and the ones you wish you could forget. Ponder all of the little moments that make up your childhood education, all the way up through high school, from the disappointed talks after the substitute teacher left a bad note to the oddly strict bathroom pass rules. Now think of the first time you heard a teacher swear. The first time a teacher spoke t...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 10

…W ith the semester nearing its end and the standoff between the Graduate Employees’ Organization and the University of Michigan raging on, there’s no better time than now to reflect back on how this school year has gone academically. For some, this year was filled with packed schedules, long study nights and never-ending amounts of work; for others, classes may have been an afterthought. Personally, I tried to find a middle ...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 11

…but going for the win.” In the second set, Styler faced some net errors but quickly fol- lowed up with a service winner and strong backhand to take the first game. Kingsley, also eager to take control, fought back to trade the hold with Styler, taking a game to make it 3-3. Eventually Styler’s discipline endured, Styler won the final game without dropping a point, taking the set and with it the match, 6-4. NILS G. WALTER Francis S...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 12

…SPORTSWEDNESDAY KATE HUA/Daily Design by Lys Goldman IN PLACE FROZEN Michigan stymied by Quinnipiac, 5-2, for second straight Frozen Four loss T AMPA, Fla. — There was no telling when the No. 2 Michigan hockey team would be back. After a puck jumped over the stick of then-freshman defenseman Luke Hughes, the ensuing year was anything but predictable for the Wolverines. In just 364 days, a head coach, innumerable NHL talent and a...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 14

…There’s something strange other students will do that I’ve be- gun to notice. Occasionally, I’ll mention my merit scholarship. This isn’t a frequent occurrence — while I believe financial transpar- ency is important, I generally think it’s in poor taste to go out of my way to mention my scholarship to other students. Still, it will come up from time to time in conversation. I can’t, I have to go to an event for my scholarship tonight...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 15

…Wednesday, April 12, 2023 // The Statement — 3 Author’s note: This piece is adapted from and inspired by Lydia Da- vis’ seminal short story, “Break It Down.” The story appears in, “The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.” A senior in college is reclining on his front porch in the gray spring light of Ann Arbor. He’s trying to make sense of it all. He says: The tuition was $50,000 a year, frontloading on classes to wrap it up in three y...…

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…4 — The Statement // Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Snip, snip, snip. I’ve always hated the sound of scissors snipping. The metallic snip, snip, snip reminds me of im- minent change, and it terrifies me. Ironically, though, as I sat on a spinning beauty salon chair last June and longingly stared back at my reflection, the sound of scissors snipping through my long, brown hair thrilled me. The thick brown locks that defined my identity for...…

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…Wednesday, April 12, 2023 // The Statement — 5 Canopy Magazine, a U-M student organization, will be publishing a book-length anthology of the tiny desk and its contents. There are hundreds and hundreds of anon- ymous entries. This piece was written in collaboration with oth- er members of the Canopy team. The project started with an idea: include everyone. Since the beginning of this semester, when the weather was pleasant, we’d rand...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 18

…This article is continued from page 6 of this insert, “We put a lit- tle desk on the Diag. Here’s what we found”. Prompt #5. I see a glimpse of it every day Something about the little desk seems to bring out what people are really feeling. An ear to listen. The words come ear- nest, open and big-hearted when there’s no one watching. Gathered together in the liter- ary space of the page, people share their responses to the prompt: “I s...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 19

…Wednesday, April 12, 2023 // The Statement — 7 I have a confession to make: Despite my seemingly positive travel posts and a frenzied roulette of indulgent Instagram stories, I can find no other words to describe the last five months of my life beyond “utterly taxing.” The easy-going charade I like to do isn’t some- thing that can withstand the more stressful periods of my life — it’s a seam that frays and unravels in the presence o...…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 1

…End the Cycle, a student organization at the University of Michigan working toward improving equity in Michigan schools, raised over $5,000 during the winter semester to completely pay off student lunch debt at Carpenter and Allen Elementary Schools in Ann Arbor. End the Cycle was founded at the University in 2020 to address inequality in Ann Arbor schools, with the city being one of the most economically segregated in the...…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 2

…Kim Dong Yeon, the governor of the Gyeonggi province — the largest province in South Korea — presented the 11th annual Sang-Yong Nam lecture on democracy at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Monday afternoon. About 100 students and Ann Arbor community members attended the event, which was hosted by the Nam Center for Korean Studies along with the Ford School of Public Policy. Kim earned his doctorate from the Sc...…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 3

…For the first time since 1984, the state of Michigan’s House, Senate and governorship are all controlled by Democrats following the 2022 midterm elections. In January 2023, lawmakers laid out their plans and priorities for this Democratic trifecta, including protecting civil and reproductive rights, lowering costs for Michigan families, protecting the environment and building out the state’s infrastructure. One hundred ...…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 4

…Ah nepotism. Defined by Merriam Webster as “favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship,” nepotism and online discussion of “nepo- babies” (children of celebrities) has certainly increased as of late. Personally, I lost my mind when I found out Gracie Abrams is JJ Abrams’s daughter. And I guess our obsession with nepotism has finally reached Netflix as they released a new office-comedy “Unstable” starring real-li...…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 5

…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 19, 2023 — 5 puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com “ ’ ” SUDOKU WHISPER “thinking about… breakfast” “When it’s obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action.” WHISPER Madeline Sun Woo Kim on paintings, vintage dresses and her first film premiere On April 19, the Michigan Theater’s largest auditorium will show a film mixing magica...…

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